•I have followed with interest the thread that has developed in the wake of my MMD posting of 10 September, 2003, suggesting that telephone technology might have played a role in the early Welte recording process. Opinions expressed have varied widely, and I believe certain items stated as facts in ...

•Hi All, If you can't tell the difference between electronically produced piano music and real piano music, you need to have your ears checked. Last month I had an occasion to call a piano dealer in Philadelphia. While talking to the owner, I heard some piano music in the background. At an appropria...

•Hi, John, Mark Forer here, very occasional contributor to MMD residing in beautiful Long Beach, Calif., the temporary berth of the Queen Mary. I'm emailing you to let you know I have just previewed your brand new A-Roll confection, graciously loaned to me by John Motto-Ros high up in the gold count...

•-- forwarded message, please reply to sender and MMD -- Hello! I am trying to rebuild an Italian portable barrel piano, or , a beggar's instrument from the beginning of 19th century. I have, alas, only very few elements. I bought this "wreckage" of the instrument at the time of the auction followin...

•> ... I connected up the motor and the pump goes backwards -- > the arrow on the pump case tells me this. I tried swapping the wires > and looking for other ways but it goes the same way each time. Does > it matter? The pump still works. Is there something I am missing? That's interesting. If your ...

•To make clear what I said regarding the auction, and the source(s) of same, as stated by Nicholas Simons and Julian Dyer: Julian says I must have mixed up the going prices for the piano and the rolls. Not so. I quoted Dr. Frank Csik, who was bidding on the telephone and presumably noted down the fi...

•Hello MMD. My previous query about lower valve seats (080207 MMDigest) must have been so longwinded that nobody got to the end of it, where the actual question was, because I got only one reply. So this time I'll be more succinct. In September, 1996, I wrote to MMDigest describing a method I had de...

•Hofmann, Schelling and Rubner - Treated or Tormented? I was going through my voluminous volumes of reproducing piano stuff and came across a little thing that I thought needed exposing, and pronto! Were they -- Josef Hofmann, Ernest Schelling and Cornelius Rubner themselves -- made captives to tort...

•[ Ref. author's earlier article in 201023 MMDigest. -- Robbie Noble Mignonite Elves and any others having interest, our present subject continues and. blessedly, now concludes. This being so esoteric a matter, meaning that about one or two out of some few tens might have actual interest, I thought ...

•Noble & Illustrious Mignonites, Et al! A few months ago I was in touch with one of the estimable authors of the catalog, The Marvelous Tho Unknown Popper "STELLA", and was informed that copies of it were available no longer. ("He who hesitates loses!" plus, "Strike while the iron is hot!" about cov...

•A Larry Givens Ampico Treasure -- Rescued from Oblivion! When one begins collecting of anything newly, doors seem to open (as according with luck, I suppose, but seeming magical) with items presenting themselves to one, almost for the option of having or no. This was the very case with myself when...

[ I sent Craig the standard invitation plus a request for permission [ to post our initial conversation (see above). [ [ Here's his "real" introduction. Please welcome aboard Craig Brougher [ [ Jody Hi Jody,¶ Thanks for signing me on. True to form, I haven't the slightest idea yet how to download a...

•While I don't quite agree with Arthur Reblitz about what 'killed the player industry' in the very late 1920's, I'm not prepared with any hard evidence to argue the point (more continued below). The request I made in my MMD posting was for information about the European player market. From pictures ...

•I respond to Diane H Kay and her inquiry about the metals used in the manufacture of musical box tune discs. I'm delighted your family has inherited and appreciates these outstanding mechanical musical devices. You are most fortunate, both to have them and to love them. Now, to the metal substance ...

•I thought that Brian Thornton really brought out a very good point in regard to practical restoration/preservation, and I just want to add to that train of thought. This is a very important topic, and much more can be said to both our points of view, since it is a wide subject. Brian said that he l...

•[ Julian Dyer wrote in 030429 MMDigest: ] > Whatever the above advantages, MIDI is certainly not the only standard > file format that could be adopted. For instance, the generic > self-defining file format of the moment in XML, which (I understand) > contains details of its data formats as well as ...

•[ The message below comes from an avid fan of carousel organs [ who wishes to remain anonymous. [ -- Robbie Rhodes, MMD Ref.: Unknown Fair Organs & Tunes on Old Recordings by Andrew Barrett (040813 MMDigest) http://www.mmdigest.com/Gallery/Sounds/Barrett/index.html In composing this "admission," I'...

•[ The article below, reproduced in its entirety, was published [ in Music Trade Review, June 29, 1912, page 29. Ref. [ http://mtr.arcade-museum.com/MTR-1912-54-26/MTR-1912-54-26-29.pdf [ Case citation: [ Aeolian Co. v. Royal Music Roll Co., 196 F. 926 (W.D.N.Y. 1912) INVOKE COPYRIGHT LAW TO PROTECT...

•[ Part 2: Conclusion ] The hooking up of the control lever linkages, as well as designing and bending them, was no easy thing. Some are multi-angular acting, and quite complex. They're enough to try the patience of a person familiar with Duo-Art linkages, as was Clare. A set of Ampico primary valve...

•-- George Wright Auditions The Welte-Mignon -- Some decades ago now, George Wright, the then-living theater organ virtuoso of legend, took some time to listen to Cyril Scott's Welte-Mignon record-roll No. 1696 of his most famed composition, "Lotus Land," and to critique it. To set the stage -- This...